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I just realized that I never shared this Endless Abandoned Hallway booknook that I built a couple years ago! Except for the booknook frame itself, I made everything from scratch (very proud of the corkboard).

This was also my first infinity mirror build and the downside to it is it needs to be VERY DARK in order to see the effect. I believe this is probably because I used little bundles of fairy lights in my light fixtures instead of LEDs. Otherwise I'm still very pleased with how it came out!

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Another Aki sketch I've been meaning to do ~ Still trying to figure out his outfit and will probably have to play around with some chibis to get something satisfactory, but I did determine his hair is super fun to draw 8D

So anyway, obviously he has two main swords. Most of the time though, in what he would consider a 'boring fight', he would be using just one, then when things heat up a bit he would bring out the second one. He is super strong so dualwielding doesn't bother him, but he does want a battle that is worthy of the effort.

...However that goes all out the window when he is at his city, Fatewinder's Beacon. Since The Beacon is actually his main body, he will build more swords for himself to fling at opponents. When they phase into this plane for use it seems as though they are appearing out of thin air. Technically speaking, these are not as good as swords that were forged by a skilled blacksmith, but multiple swords built by an unfathomably large invisible/incorporeal presence VS real swords, probably not too big of a difference in the heat of battle. (Afterwards the extra swords all disappear - he phases them back out and then breaks them back down into components so he can use them elsewhere. It's a whole Thing the sentient cities do)

Since there are only four Sovereigns, its somewhat easy to generalize their behaviors - if under attack at their homes, the other three would prefer to do something simple and quick (such as liquefy the floors) rather than play around like this. The Beacon's layout is significantly more vertical than the others though, so if he were to liquify the floors, the invaders would fall a very long way before he stopped them noclipping, and this would all probably cause much distress to residents that saw it. It is a simple way to take care of the issue to be sure, but he'd prefer to save it for bigger problems.

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Another Aki sketch I've been meaning to do ~ Still trying to figure out his outfit and will probably have to play around with some chibis to get something satisfactory, but I did determine his hair is super fun to draw 8D

So anyway, obviously he has two main swords. Most of the time though, in what he would consider a 'boring fight', he would be using just one, then when things heat up a bit he would bring out the second one. He is super strong so dualwielding doesn't bother him, but he does want a battle that is worthy of the effort.

...However that goes all out the window when he is at his city, Fatewinder's Beacon. Since The Beacon is actually his main body, he will build more swords for himself to fling at opponents. When they phase into this plane for use it seems as though they are appearing out of thin air. Technically speaking, these are not as good as swords that were forged by a skilled blacksmith, but multiple swords built by an unfathomably large invisible/incorporeal presence VS real swords, probably not too big of a difference in the heat of battle. (Afterwards the extra swords all disappear - he phases them back out and then breaks them back down into components so he can use them elsewhere. It's a whole Thing the sentient cities do)

Since there are only four Sovereigns, its somewhat easy to generalize their behaviors - if under attack at their homes, the other three would prefer to do something simple and quick (such as liquefy the floors) rather than play around like this. The Beacon's layout is significantly more vertical than the others though, so if he were to liquify the floors, the invaders would fall a very long way before he stopped them noclipping, and this would all probably cause much distress to residents that saw it. It is a simple way to take care of the issue to be sure, but he'd prefer to save it for bigger problems.

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coming across a post from a mutual who hasn't opted in yet

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I am become boop, the destroyer of worlds.

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THE BOOPENING HAS RETURNED

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Aki!! One of the sketches I have been meaning to do. Usually I change the background back to white before posting but then I added the white so I just left it this time. Still playing around with figuring out how to draw him, outfit design, sword design, etc, so I'd just expect a bunch of inconsistencies for now but I like how this one came out C:

One of these days I'll be brave enough to try to explain this in greater detail but he is a type of ancient sion called a Sovereign. In this case it's used as both a title (he is in fact a king) as well as an actual type of being. Sovereigns have basically 2 bodies that they're operating at once ~ Their sion body, which is their original one (they uhhhh outgrew it) and is kind of like an avatar body, and their "main" body, which is a "sentient city", or at least, they are being perceived as one. They are mostly phased out of this plane, though sometimes you can catch glimmers of....something...out of the corner of your eye.

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Aki!! One of the sketches I have been meaning to do. Usually I change the background back to white before posting but then I added the white so I just left it this time. Still playing around with figuring out how to draw him, outfit design, sword design, etc, so I'd just expect a bunch of inconsistencies for now but I like how this one came out C:

One of these days I'll be brave enough to try to explain this in greater detail but he is a type of ancient sion called a Sovereign. In this case it's used as both a title (he is in fact a king) as well as an actual type of being. Sovereigns have basically 2 bodies that they're operating at once ~ Their sion body, which is their original one (they uhhhh outgrew it) and is kind of like an avatar body, and their "main" body, which is a "sentient city", or at least, they are being perceived as one. They are mostly phased out of this plane, though sometimes you can catch glimmers of....something...out of the corner of your eye.

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I've mentioned this height chart a couple times before so I thought I may as well share it! I want to add more characters to it for sure but I think its looking cool so far! The template is by "Inthenameofsweden" on DA, though I stretched it out and added the checkerboard pattern as I felt like it needed some extra texture.

Tower is actually the only one that was drawn traditionally, the rest were drawn digitally. I had the genius idea of taking a picture of him and then drawing the others on the same canvas so they would already be sized relatively correctly (and the art wouldn't be too distorted when I resized them for realsies here)

Normally Tower/Sy are the tallest characters that anyone else interacts with. The Daydreamer is technically taller (around 7'), but they almost never leave the library so barely anyone sees them unless they're in there. Cavi is...not the shortest person ever but he is otherwise considered pretty small. Like he is actually at risk or being blown away by large gusts of wind.

In an ideal world I would have liked to include a bunch of meme redraws to explain these guys but I don't have the bandwidth at the moment; feel free to hold me to it in the future though LOL. I did manage to dig up a couple old ones (not completely fossilized yet) so I'll stick them under the cut as bonus content!

Sy discovering Cavi was actually a sion and not just a normal guy for once (redraw of an Umbrella Academy meme)

These next two have less than ideal image dimensions for tumblr so I'll lump them together -

Torch refusing to acknowledge anything especially stupid that Tower and Cavi are doing ("I pretend I do not see it" meme), plus

Cavi having a bad day ("WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON" screenshot redraw of Alex YIIK doing the line in YIIK: A Postmodern RPG)

Tower (pre-cheek scar) legitimately calculating a bunch of probability math in his head (Confused Math Lady meme redraw...he just looks Like That)

If I were to dig up the fossilized memes it would be clear that Sy is a particularly huge memelord so be thankful we are not going there....for now

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I've mentioned this height chart a couple times before so I thought I may as well share it! I want to add more characters to it for sure but I think its looking cool so far! The template is by "Inthenameofsweden" on DA, though I stretched it out and added the checkerboard pattern as I felt like it needed some extra texture.

Tower is actually the only one that was drawn traditionally, the rest were drawn digitally. I had the genius idea of taking a picture of him and then drawing the others on the same canvas so they would already be sized relatively correctly (and the art wouldn't be too distorted when I resized them for realsies here)

Normally Tower/Sy are the tallest characters that anyone else interacts with. The Daydreamer is technically taller (around 7'), but they almost never leave the library so barely anyone sees them unless they're in there. Cavi is...not the shortest person ever but he is otherwise considered pretty small. Like he is actually at risk or being blown away by large gusts of wind.

In an ideal world I would have liked to include a bunch of meme redraws to explain these guys but I don't have the bandwidth at the moment; feel free to hold me to it in the future though LOL. I did manage to dig up a couple old ones (not completely fossilized yet) so I'll stick them under the cut as bonus content!

Sy discovering Cavi was actually a sion and not just a normal guy for once (redraw of an Umbrella Academy meme)

These next two have less than ideal image dimensions for tumblr so I'll lump them together -

Torch refusing to acknowledge anything especially stupid that Tower and Cavi are doing ("I pretend I do not see it" meme), plus

Cavi having a bad day ("WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON" screenshot redraw of Alex YIIK doing the line in YIIK: A Postmodern RPG)

Tower (pre-cheek scar) legitimately calculating a bunch of probability math in his head (Confused Math Lady meme redraw...he just looks Like That)

If I were to dig up the fossilized memes it would be clear that Sy is a particularly huge memelord so be thankful we are not going there....for now

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https://bsky.app/profile/corvarrow.bsky.social

Since everyone is posting Bluesky info (I hear Twitter is doing stupid stuff once again, lol), here's mine!

I've had it for awhile but continually forget to use it since tumblr is my favorite social media >_>a I may start using it a little more for kind of "one off"/random thoughts like "what podcast am I currently listening through" (Derelict).

I should probably attempt to crosspost art there too but. You guys know I like to write novels in the descriptions 😂 Can I stand cutting out text?? Guess we will find out.

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Handful of sketches from yesterday when I was trying to work out how I want to draw non-chibi Akis. (These were just the successful ones I picked out from my giant scratchpad canvas.) Again he is actually a little challenging as he has waaaaay more hair than I usually draw.

Since this one IS a little messy, the text says:

-Conclusion: Lot of hair

-Hair sometimes half up, sometimes all the way up (uhh I was trying to say sometimes its all tied up and sometimes its just a half tie, but it was like 11 pm at this point)

-Sooo much hair

-Looks young-ish

-has a soft face

-Originally built to look friendly ~ hair was much shorter though (and no horns, which happened later. Basically pre-sapience they were originally following a bunch of dialogue trees, and sometimes humans could kind of tell something was a little strange with their speech. In an attempt to get people to trade with them anyway Ahveph made them at least look friendly.)

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Handful of sketches from yesterday when I was trying to work out how I want to draw non-chibi Akis. (These were just the successful ones I picked out from my giant scratchpad canvas.) Again he is actually a little challenging as he has waaaaay more hair than I usually draw.

Since this one IS a little messy, the text says:

-Conclusion: Lot of hair

-Hair sometimes half up, sometimes all the way up (uhh I was trying to say sometimes its all tied up and sometimes its just a half tie, but it was like 11 pm at this point)

-Sooo much hair

-Looks young-ish

-has a soft face

-Originally built to look friendly ~ hair was much shorter though (and no horns, which happened later. Basically pre-sapience they were originally following a bunch of dialogue trees, and sometimes humans could kind of tell something was a little strange with their speech. In an attempt to get people to trade with them anyway Ahveph made them at least look friendly.)

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Aaand I thought it was about time for one of these!

-Working on multiple things at once (as you do) ~ My focus do far this week has been attempting to work out how to draw Aki's face in a non-chibi way. Kind of struggled a bit as he also has waaaay more hair than I'm used to drawing, but I did finally come up with some decent little headshot doodles last night :Va I was gonna share them then but got distracted trying to battle with our printer, so I'll share at some point tonight

-On a related note I am super in love with this ancient sions setting, you guys don't even know. 🥹 It's extremely fun to write about. There are multiple "sentient cities" and the societal implications are just wild.

-Also finished playing Still Wakes the Deep over the weekend! I really enjoyed it. I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get through it because I'm a weenie when it comes to 1st person "run from monster only" type of games, but it actually wasn't too bad. I kept telling myself "If I can get through RE Village Dollhouse I can get through anything", LOL.

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Aaaaand one more ref completed! Hooray! Toyhouse is here: https://toyhou.se/29521619.sy

Sy is my oldest character that I still actively use and draw. As such he has a lot of old ref sheets so it was extra satisfying to finish this one and compare it to the old ones. This is going to be the last of this style of ref for now as I found it a little more time consuming than I wanted. I may or may not do a couple other characters as I have a height chart going on the side and I want to line them all up, but if I do they are JUST going to be the descriptive notes and color dots.

Anyway so the rest of this description box here is going to be a bit longer than the other ones cause there were a couple more things I wanted to note about him -

The first thing being that Tower IS basically a doppelganger - physically they look like they're twins, down to Sy's tattoo being copied, only Tower has been through some shit. They even have a couple of personality traits in common, such as being loyal and nervous talking, but on these ref sheets I thought it was more important to keep them as separate as possible. They are very much aware of each other. They don't get along at first but eventually they are much more like siblings.

The other thing was that it was extra hard to write down traits here, as a lot of his issues directly relate to the current dystopian state of shifter society. That needs a bit more context, which can't exactly go on a model sheet. 😅 Shapeshifting is basically a psychic ability, and those who can do something besides shift are called "true psychics". For Reasons this is becoming increasingly rarer so their society tries to draw out all the true psychics they can and put them on pedestals, even when the individuals otherwise don't have any particular merits. (Also, they've made tier lists out of them so some abilities are way higher regarded than others.) The best example I can think of is their entertainment industry, where they will more often hire and promote true psychic actors with little to no talent over regular actors who do have actual talent. This is prevalent in multiple industries. Sy knows it, he hates it and thinks it sucks, if he is given something he wants to feel like he actually earned and deserves it. He wants to be recognized for his actual merits rather than arbitrarily just for winning the genetic lottery. The problem is that even when he DOES legitimately become very skilled he just never feels like it's enough.

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Aaaaand one more ref completed! Hooray! Toyhouse is here: https://toyhou.se/29521619.sy

Sy is my oldest character that I still actively use and draw. As such he has a lot of old ref sheets so it was extra satisfying to finish this one and compare it to the old ones. This is going to be the last of this style of ref for now as I found it a little more time consuming than I wanted. I may or may not do a couple other characters as I have a height chart going on the side and I want to line them all up, but if I do they are JUST going to be the descriptive notes and color dots.

Anyway so the rest of this description box here is going to be a bit longer than the other ones cause there were a couple more things I wanted to note about him -

The first thing being that Tower IS basically a doppelganger - physically they look like they're twins, down to Sy's tattoo being copied, only Tower has been through some shit. They even have a couple of personality traits in common, such as being loyal and nervous talking, but on these ref sheets I thought it was more important to keep them as separate as possible. They are very much aware of each other. They don't get along at first but eventually they are much more like siblings.

The other thing was that it was extra hard to write down traits here, as a lot of his issues directly relate to the current dystopian state of shifter society. That needs a bit more context, which can't exactly go on a model sheet. 😅 Shapeshifting is basically a psychic ability, and those who can do something besides shift are called "true psychics". For Reasons this is becoming increasingly rarer so their society tries to draw out all the true psychics they can and put them on pedestals, even when the individuals otherwise don't have any particular merits. (Also, they've made tier lists out of them so some abilities are way higher regarded than others.) The best example I can think of is their entertainment industry, where they will more often hire and promote true psychic actors with little to no talent over regular actors who do have actual talent. This is prevalent in multiple industries. Sy knows it, he hates it and thinks it sucks, if he is given something he wants to feel like he actually earned and deserves it. He wants to be recognized for his actual merits rather than arbitrarily just for winning the genetic lottery. The problem is that even when he DOES legitimately become very skilled he just never feels like it's enough.